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Emotional Intelligence in AI, Your AI Driverless Car Likes You (Kind-of)
Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider
President Abraham Lincoln was considered an emotional person. I realize this seems counter-intuitive to what most people perceive about Lincoln’s persona and reputation. Meanwhile, he struggled with trying to rein in his own emotions. In a letter he wrote in 1841 to a congressman, Lincoln expressed that if perchance how he (Lincoln) felt was distributed to the whole human family, there would consequently not be even one cheerful face on earth.
I suspect that most of us wrestle with our emotions.
When referring to emotions, there are lots of varied definitions of what kinds of emotions exist. Some try to say that similar to how colors have a base set and you can then mix-and-match those base colors to render additional colors, so the same applies to emotions. They assert that there are some fundamental emotions and we then mix-and-match those to get other emotions. But, there is much disagreement about what are the core or fundamental emotions and it’s generally an unsettled debate.
One viewpoint has been that there are six core emotions:
- Anger
- Disgust
- Fear
- Happiness
- Sadness
